He works in mysterious ways.

Damon Runyon’s story of a bookie (Adolphe Menjou) who finds himself in possession of a little girl (Shirley Temple) as an IOU for a gambling debt. Alexander Hall directed this 1934 feature. The Reader ...

Little Martha Jane, aka Little Miss Marker is left with the bookmaker Sorrowful Jones by her dad as part of a bet on a horse race. Sorrowful and his group of fellow bookies take to her, reluctantly at ...

It was a great burden to place on anyone, forget about a child: Not only carrying movie after movie, but helping lift the spirits of a nation. But Shirley Temple, armed with optimism that sprung with ...

The backdrop of Turkish emigre clubs and entertainment venues throughout Western Europe provides the only novel element in "Tour Abroad," an otherwise dreary retread of every adult-stuck-with-orphan ...

With Walter Matthau and Julie Andrews, this classic romcom sees a gruff bookie's life turned upside down when he gets a six-year-old child as collateral for a bet. (1980)(103 mins) ...